On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

Part of a series of occasional features marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It has been almost 250 years since John Dunlap’s Philadelphia print shop pulled an all-nighter ...

Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence included clauses condemning the slave trade. Historian Holly Brewer's research suggests the founders believed "all men are created ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artisteer/Getty Images Five men in historical attire discuss documents at a round table, with bookshelves and a fireplace in the ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

Byron Williams is a high school history teacher and author, most recently, of “Liberty and Equality in America: Examining the Radical and Paradoxical Legacy of the Declaration of Independence.” The ...